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Earth Day: Moving Maine (and Gov. LePage) Towards a 100% Clean Energy Economy
May 17, 2015
EARTH DAY: MOVING MAINE (AND GOV. LEPAGE) TOWARDS A 100% CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMYBy Glen Brand, Director, Sierra Club MaineOn the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, the most pressing environmental problems were worsening air, water and toxic...
Stop Ignoring the Scientific Facts and Take Action
March 2, 2015
Stop Ignoring the Scientific Facts and Take Actionby Lynda Sudlow, Sierra Club Maine Executive CommitteeA recent commentary printed in the Portland Press Herald (January 30, 2015) by M.D. Harmon proclaims that there is “No sound basis for...
How will Maine respond to the next spruce budworm outbreak?
February 20, 2015
Today, there is concern that a new spruce budworm outbreak is imminent. Our neighbors to the north in Quebec are already experiencing a major infestation, with more than 8 million acres of forest affected. History tells us that it’s just a matter of...
Keeping Maine a Blessed Place
February 9, 2015
We have no idea how blessed we are and perhaps that is our job here: to help us remember what a blessed place we live in, in a government that is designed to be interactive in a state where there are far more trees than humans, where migratory...
Club, Chapter, Community
December 13, 2014
December 13, 2014Club, Chapter, CommunityBy Tara Hollander, Sierra Club Maine Executive Committee MemberFrom a favorite climbing tree, or love of swimming in fresh water lakes, to those first bike rides of freedom from home, or hikes on the trail...
Maine Needs Clean Elections for a Clean Environment
November 7, 2014
Maine Needs Clean Elections for a Clean Environmentby Susan van Alsenoy, Sierra Club Maine Executive Committee MemberArriving at the polling station in Waldoboro, Maine, at 8 o’clock in the morning, I was delighted to find that I would be able to...
WE MADE HISTORY! MARCHING FOR OUR CLIMATE
October 10, 2014
(Maine State Rep. Deanne Rykerson and me at the Climate March)October 1, 2014WE MADE HISTORY! MARCHING FOR OUR CLIMATEBy Glen Brand, Sierra Club Maine Chapter DirectorOn Sunday, September 21, I woke up very, very early in the morning...